12 The wilderness pastures overflow,
and the hills are robed with joy.(A)

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11 Then I said, “Until when, Lord?” (A) And he replied:

Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants,(B)
houses are without people,
the land is ruined and desolate,

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21 On that day
a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
22 and from the abundant milk they give
he will eat curds,
for every survivor in the land will eat curds and honey.(A)

23 And on that day
every place where there were a thousand vines,
worth a thousand pieces of silver,
will become thorns and briers.(B)
24 A man will go there with bow and arrows
because the whole land will be thorns and briers.
25 You will not go to all the hills
that were once tilled with a hoe,
for fear of the thorns and briers.
Those hills will be places for oxen to graze
and for sheep to trample.

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10 For the fortified city will be desolate,
pastures deserted and abandoned like a wilderness.
Calves will graze there,
and there they will spread out and strip its branches.

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15 until the Spirit[a] from on high is poured out on us.(A)
Then the desert will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 32:15 Or a wind

18 I will open rivers on the barren heights,(A)
and springs in the middle of the plains.
I will turn the desert into a pool
and dry land into springs.(B)
19 I will plant cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive trees
in the wilderness.(C)
I will put juniper, elm, and cypress trees together
in the desert,

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For the Lord will comfort Zion;(A)
he will comfort all her waste places,
and he will make her wilderness like Eden,(B)
and her desert like the garden of the Lord.(C)
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and melodious song.

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12 You will indeed go out with joy
and be peacefully guided;
the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.(A)
13 Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will come up,
and instead of the brier, a myrtle will come up;(B)
this will stand as a monument for the Lord,(C)
an everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.

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